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After Such Knowledge: Memory, History, and the Aftermath of the Holocaust.(Brief Article)(Book Review)

Publishers Weekly

| November 24, 2003 | (Hide copyright information)Copyright

EVA HOFFMAN. Public Affairs, $25 (288p) ISBN 1-58648-046-4

* "Sixty years after the Holocaust took place ... [and] this immense catastrophe recedes from us in time, our preoccupation with it seems only to increase," writes Hoffman in this beautifully wrought, deftly argued examination of how we might attempt to understand the Holocaust. In seven short essays, Hoffman (Lost in Translation, etc.) focuses on the consciousness and experience of the Holocaust's second generation--the children of survivors--as theirs is a "strong case-study in the deep and long-lasting impact of atrocity." Synthesizing personal history (born in Cracow, Poland, in 1945, Hoffman left at the …

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